Diary entries
October 14 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 16 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
October 18 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Concerto Soloist
Notes: Satina indicates that the program order is not known, and that a work by Chabrier was included. She also indicates that the Preludes in G minor and B flat major, op. 23, were played as encores. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 12 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that as an encore Rachmaninoff played Melodie by Gluck-Sgambatti. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 14 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of music by Bach, and that only one Etude by Chopin and one Prelude by Rachmaninoff were given. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 16 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that in a review of the concert there was no mention of the Ballade by Chopin or the Etude-tableau by Rachmaninoff. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 17 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 18 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 20 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 21 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 23 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 25 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that according to Natalia Rachmaninoff the Waltz in A flat major could be either op. 64, no. 3, or op. 69, no. 1, or op. 42. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 26 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina indicates that it is possible that the Chopin Scherzo was not played, as it was not mentioned in the review. It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
November 30 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: It is not known whether the fugue by Bach was played alongside the prelude. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 1 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 2 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 4 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89
December 5 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 7 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 8 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89
December 9 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
December 22 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: Recorded at Trinity Church. Gregor Benko, in his notes for the 1973 'The Complete Rachmaninoff' RCA release, notes that no usable take of the final section of the first movement survived. He indicates that the posthumous publication of the 1924 recording was 'filled out' with a section from the later 1929 electrical recording of the concerto by the same artists.
December 30 1924
Rachmaninoff's role: Gramophone Recording
Notes: Details of Rachmaninoff's recording sessions have been compiled from Barrie Martyn's book 'Rachmaninoff: Composer, Pianist, Conductor' (Scolar Press: London, 1990), pp. 453-497.
January 14 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Which Etude-Tableau by Rachmaninoff is not known. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 16 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: Satina notes that this Friday concert was ‘by invitation’. Satina also believed that the Chopin Ballade was likely in A flat major, op. 47. LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 17 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 19 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.
January 21 1925
Rachmaninoff's role: Solo Pianist
Notes: LoC, Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive, ML31.R33, Papers of Sophie Satin, boxes 82-89.